Attraction And Repulsion Quotes

• Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.

  William Blake

  Love, Hate, Energy

  'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell' (1790-3) 'The Argument'

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• There is a thin line between attraction and repulsion

  Candace Bushnell

  Lines, Repulsion, Attraction

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• A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

  Honore de Balzac

  Artist, Literature, Grocers

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• The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him.

  Italo Calvino

  World, Concern, Satirist

  Italo Calvino (2017). “The Uses of Literature”, p.69, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is plurality, death is uniformity.

  Octavio Paz

  Life, Differences, World

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• Until now when we have started to talk about the uniqueness of America we have almost always ended by comparing ourselves to Europe. Toward her we have felt all the attraction and repulsions of Oedipus

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Country, Oedipus, Europe

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• All the forces that we see in nature, such as gravitation, attraction, and repulsion, or as thought, feeling, and nervous motion - all these various forces resolve into that Prana, and the vibration of the Prana ceases. In that state it remains until the beginning of the next cycle. Prana then begins to vibrate, and that vibration acts upon the Akasha, and all these forms are thrown out in regular succession.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Feelings, Next, Vibrations

  Swami Vivekananda (2002). “Jnana-Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, Vedanta Press

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• The saints, many of them women, warred with themselves as well as God. The body has its own animal urges, just as there are attractions and repulsions in sex that modern liberalism cannot face.

  Camille Paglia

  Sex, Animal, Saint

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.34, Vintage

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• Your mind is turbulent because you're filled with desires, frustrations. You want too many things. You are afraid of too many things. It is necessary to overcome both attraction and repulsion to still the mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Frustration, Mind, Desire

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• It seems safe to look forward to the time when the conception of attractive and repulsive forces, having served its purpose as a useful piece of scientific scaffolding, will be replaced by the deduction of the phenomena known as attraction and repulsion, from the general laws of motion.

  Thomas Huxley

  Law, Looks, Purpose

  "The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century" by Thomas Henry Huxley, 1889.

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• Love has been taken away from the poets, and has been brought within the domain of true science. It may prove to be one of the great cosmic elementary forces. When the atom of hydrogen draws the atom of chlorine towards it to form the perfected molecule of hydrochloric acid, the force which it exerts may be intrinsically similar to that which draws me to you. Attraction and repulsion appear to be the primary forces. This is attraction.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Humorous, Taken, Sarcasm

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.5605, Delphi Classics

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• The more one studies the harmony of music, and then studies human nature, how people agree and how they disagree, how there is attraction and repulsion, the more one will see that it is all music.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  People, Study, Human Nature

  Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Mysticism of Sound, Music, The Power of the Word, Cosmic Language”, Library of Alexandria

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• What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life

  Octavio Paz

  Views, Civilization, Differences

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• But the self-controlled man, moving among objects, with his senses under restraint, and free from both attraction and repulsion, attains peace.

  Chinmayananda Saraswati

  Peace, Fear, Moving

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• Even though flowers fall, don't regret it. Even though weeds grow, don't hate them. Don't arouse the passions of attraction and repulsion, hating and loving. If only we don't arouse the passions, the falling of flowers and the growing of weeds as they are is manifest absolute reality.

  Hakuun Yasutani

  Weed, Regret, Hate

  Hakuun Yasutani (1996). “Flowers Fall: A Commentary on Dōgen's Genjōkōan”, Shambhala Publications

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• Minds vary in sensitiveness and in self-power, as bodies do in susceptibility of attraction and repulsion. When, when shall we learn that they are governed by laws as inexorable as physical laws, and that a man can as easily refuse to obey what has power over him as a steel atom can resist the magnet?

  James Anthony Froude

  Men, Self, Law

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The nemesis of faith”, p.134

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• In the West, there's a myth that freedom means free expression-that to follow all desires wherever they take one is true freedom. In fact, as one serves the mind, one sees that following desires, attractions, and repulsions is not at all freedom, but is a kind of bondage. A mind filled with desires and grasping inevitably entails great suffering. Freedom is not to be gained through the ability to perform certain external actions. True freedom is an inward state of being. Once it is attained, no situation in the world can bind one or limit one's freedom.

  Jack Kornfield

  Mean, Expression, Mind

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